Turf Valley is a short-form comedic web series that follows three stay-at-home dads who, after ushering their kids onto the neighborhood school bus, hang back to shoot the existential breeze. These trivial conversations take them to the heart of their collective anxieties about life in Turf Valley, a cushy suburb of DC. Overeducated, under-utilized, and middle-aged, this trio is neck-deep in first-world problems they’ll never quite understand, much less solve. But that won’t stop them from trying! Not since Estragon and Vladimir (or Hank Hill and Dale Gribble) has the absurdity of existence found such lovable goofs.
Turf Valley is a live-action comedy web series. Interested in investing? Contact Adam & Tom at info@turfvalleyshow.com
Promo#1 “Relief”
Three stay-at-home dads ponder life’s “big” questions for six, maybe seven minutes tops.
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The Creators
Adam Rodgers (Co-creator/Writer/Director)
Adam earned a B.A. at Duke University and an M.F.A. at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, won a student Emmy Award, moved to Los Angeles, and broke into the movie business with the AD of his comedy spec script, Moving Elliot, to Universal.In the decade that followed, Adam and his writing partner sold and optioned more pitches and spec scripts (to Universal, Fox and Sony, among others), and saw their first greenlit project, the television movie Racing for Time, starring Emmy-winners Tiffany Haddish and Charles S. Dutton. That same year, Adam directed The Response, a 30-minute short based on transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, starring Aasif Mandvi, Kate Mulgrew, and Peter Riegert. The film, which NPR called “a brilliant production,” was an Oscar semi-finalist for the 2010 Academy Awards (Best Short Film, Live Action). Most recently, Adam co-wrote and directed the indie romantic comedy At Middleton, starring Academy Award nominees Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia. The film won multiple festival awards, was released theatrically in the U.S. and internationally, was named a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and debuted in the top 10 (Art House) On Demand releases. Currently, Adam writes, directs, and produces for film and television through his production company, 8th Day Pictures, and lectures for the Program in Film and Media Studies at The Johns Hopkins University.
Thomas Ventimiglia (Co-creator/Writer/Producer)
Thomas is the co-chair of the Charles C. Baum Film and Visual Storytelling Department at the Baltimore School for the Arts. In 2019, he won a Saul Zaentz fellowship for Corpse Flower, an animated short currently in development. In 2017, his feature screenplay When We Fall earned a grant from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund. In 2016, Thomas co-directed The Founders, a documentary detailing the origin of the Baltimore School for the Arts. His short fiction works have appeared in magazines such as The Baltimore Review and The Potomac Review. He is a graduate of New York University, Queens College, and Johns Hopkins University.
Bea Bufrahi (Producer)
Beatriz Bufrahi has taught video and media literacy skills to Baltimore youth since she received her MFA from the Intermedia and Digital Arts Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2004. Since then she has served on the faculty of the Baltimore School for the Arts teaching digital media and video. Bufrahi worked with local educational organizations to produce short documentaries and in 2014 she co-directed and edited The Founders, a documentary about the establishment of the Baltimore School for the Arts. She is currently in post-production for the short film The Audition and in the development of the webisode Norma. She is producing a Saul Zaentz development recipient script When We Fall. Bea is the founder and director of the Baltimore High School Film Festival, which has presented an annual juried screening of narrative, documentary, experimental films, and animation from Baltimore and Maryland youth since 2012.
Sig Libowitz (Producer)
Sig Libowitz is a producer, writer, actor, professor, attorney, and former studio & production executive in Los Angeles and New York. Sig wrote, produced and co-starred in The Response, which was short-listed for an Academy Award (Best Short Film, Live Action). A courtroom drama based on actual transcripts from the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, the film stars Kate Mulgrew (Orange is the New Black, Star Trek: Voyager), Aasif Mandvi (The Daily Show), and Peter Riegert (Animal House). The Response screened at the Pentagon, Congress, West Point and the French Embassy, among others, and won the ABA Award as Best of the Year in Drama and Literature (prior winners include Twelve Angry Men, Judgment at Nuremberg and To Kill a Mockingbird). Sig produced At Middleton starring Academy Award nominees Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga; served as Executive-in-Charge of Production for In the Bedroom starring Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson (nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture); VP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions at Paramount Classics; Director of Production at Film Four (then based at Warner Brothers); and Production Exec at Good Machine (now Focus Features). As an actor, Sig played recurring roles on The Sopranos and Law & Order; a featured role opposite Ryan Gossling in The Believer (Best Film, Sundance Film Festival); and starred in numerous TV pilots (most recently opposite Ed Asner) and national commercials. A guest lecturer at Oxford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the U.S. Army JAG School, among others, Sig teaches courses on Intellectual Property, Political Cinema, Screenwriting and National Security issues.
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